Consumer Alert: Nearly 60 Products—Including Home Décor, Off-Road Vehicles, and Children’s Clothing—Top October Recall List

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Attorney General Todd Rokita is alerting Hoosiers that off-road vehicles, furniture, children’s clothing, and dozens more items are among the nearly 60 products recalled nationwide in October for fire, injury, and entrapment risks.

“Every month, dangerous products cause injury or property damage when consumers are unaware of potential hazards,” Rokita said. “My office is committed to keeping Hoosiers informed and protected. Acting quickly on a recall is crucial to preventing harm to you or your loved ones.”

Hoosiers who own these products should stop using them immediately and follow the manufacturer’s recall instructions.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission reports the following products were recalled in October:

Home Furniture & Home Appliances:  

These products present fire, burn or laceration risks in household settings.  

  • Ambiano Electric Pressure Cookers : Poses risk of burn injuries; pressure-cooker lid can be opened before sufficient steam pressure has been released, causing hot contents to escape; sold at ALDI retail stores nationwide. 
  • AOWOS Dressers: The recalled dressers are unstable if they are not anchored to the wall, posing tip-over and entrapment hazards that can result in serious injuries or death to children; the dressers violate the mandatory standard required by the  STURDY Act ; sold on Walmart.com. 
  • Gunaito 10-Drawer Dressers: F urniture unstable, if they are not anchored to the wall, posing serious tip-over and entrapment hazards, that can result in injuries or death to children; sold on Walmart.com 
  • LEACHOI Bed Rail: Could cause serious entrapment hazard and risk of death by asphyxiation, also no hazard warning labels; sold on Amazon.com.  

Outdoor Products & Offroad Vehicles : 

These products pose a risk of fire hazards, serious injuries and death.  

  • Vaast A/1 bicycles and frames : F rame can develop a hairline fracture near a weld, which can cause the tubes to separate, posing a risk of falling; sold at various bike shops nationally.  

Children’s Products: 

These products present a risk of fire, serious injury or death.  

  • Bmrwtg LED Tutu Skirts: Product contains lithium coin batt eries that can be accessed easily by children. When button cell or coin batteries are swallowed, the ingested batteries can cause serious injuries, internal chemical burns and death; tutu skirts also do not have the warnings required by  Reese’s Law; sold on Amazon.com. 
  • Evermore Surprise Eggs: Toy airplane inside the egg contains levels of lead that exceed the federal lead content ban; sold at 7-Eleven, Horizon, Speedway and Murphy stores.  
  • Generic Magnetic Balls 1000pcs : Toy can result in perforations, twisting, and/ore blockage of the intestines, blood poisoning and death; Magnets, violate the mandatory standard for toys; if swallowed, can attract each other, or other metal objects, and become lodged in the digestive system; sold on Amazon.com 

Electronics : 

These products pose a risk of fire hazards and serious burn injuries.  

Other Products:  

These products present fire hazards, serious injury or death from poisoning,  

  • Bio Ionic One-Inch-Long Barrel Curling Iron : The barrel of the curling iron can snap and detach, posing a burn hazard to consumers, sold on Amazon and Bioionic.com. In-store and online at Salon Centric, Ulta, Sephora, and Nordstrom and in salons and beauty supply stores nationwide.  
  • Dissolved Oxygen Test Kits: Product violate the mandatory standard for child-resistant packaging because the bottle of sulfuric acid is not child-resistant, posing a risk of serious injury or death from poisoning, if the contents are swallowed by young children; sold on Amazon.com. 
  • Scripto® Premium Torch: Deadly fire and burn hazards to consumers; violates the requirements of the mandatory safety standard for multipurpose lighters; sold at Walmart and Home Depot stores nationwide and online at Walmart.com and Homedepot.com.  
  • VST gas-fired tankless water heaters: The exhaust duct can crack, allowing gases to escape inside of the home, posing a carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning hazard that can result in death or serious injury; sold at p lumbing supply stores nationwide. 

If you believe you recently purchased a recalled product, stop using it, and check its recall notice (linked above for all products). Then follow the notice’s instructions, including where to return the product, how to get the product fixed, how to dispose of the product, how to receive a refund for the product or what steps must be taken to receive a replacement product.  

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